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i dont know exactly how to articulate this in a way other people havent but everything is too fast now. 24/7 news cycle, online focuses that last for hours instead of months or years, songs written just so ten seconds can go viral. movies and books churned out to meet some nebulous income quota. idk. im motion sick
Bill Watterson, 1995
You're not alone or the first to feel like everything is going too fast
dark green is a nice color. underrated
ladies and gentlemen, Phtalo Green
This is literally my favorite color. 😩 Smaragd green is another dark shade of green that I’m absolutely obsessed with.
friendly reminder that if i have ever befriended you and have not spoken to you in a while it’s nothing you’ve done wrong it’s just because i’m a piece of shit at keeping in contact with people and i still love you okay good
nothing is real and then all of a sudden everything is very real with no warning
yeah i’m high on thc. The Human Condition
when recipes have a entire final step that just says "serve".
I’ve been looking through The Digital Transgender Archive again and found somethings from the Femmes Unite! #2 zine (published in 2007) that I felt validated by. I saved several clippings, but here’s one:
[Text Description: Our femme community here in Portland is so big and as you might imagine, we’re all very different folks. We’ve got fatties, anarchists, bottoms, tops, switches, dykes, fags, mtfs, ftms, lesbians, survivors, punks, midwesterners, southerners, college grads, high school drop outs, radicals, indoor and outdoor femmes … the list could go on forever. If there’s anything we’re learned, it’s that femme is not a singular restrictive box to fit ourselves into. Being femme is only part of who each of us are. (Just glance at the biography pages and you’ll see what we mean!) In this zine we tried to address some of our other identities and how they overlap with the glamour and strength of our femmeness. We hope that you can see some of yourself here and that it sparks exciting thought and discussion. Love and sensible shoes, Femme Affinity Group Porland. /End Descrption]
thinking about middle aged gay love is like. we have a future and we have time
If you are silent about your pain they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it - Zora Neale Hurston
Need the ocean to wash my brain smooth like sea glass
my writing ability currently feels on par with that of like…. a seven year old. i’m just writing one sentence. then another sentence. subject verb object, dependent clause period. do any of them relate? unclear. that is for god to decide. i certainly can’t.
the url makes this so much funnier
SCHITT’S CREEK (2015-2020)
HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE
MAKE A WISH
the first post ever on tumblr
I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK
WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK
World Heritage Post
like actually though. i’m in AWE of the notecount.
reblog to give your friend a bad day
this is the monalisa of tumblr
“And to your right you’ll see the colour of the sky post, and tumblrinas desperately trying to scroll down to it’s end.”
this is it, this post started it all
NOW THAT TUMBLR HAS ANNOUNCED TO SHORTEN LONG POSTS, REBLOG TO TORMENT YOUR FOLLOWERS ONE LAST TIME
i post for the girls who were lonely and isolated during peak social developmental years
shout out to everyone who participated in the january-february mass depressive episode
the best advice i have for any trans dudes out there who are feeling shitty/dysphoric about not being able to achieve believable masculinity is to just....look at guys.
close out of social media, close out of those "gender envy" photosets, purge the idealized 6'2 chiseled abs square jaw image of peak masculinity out of your mind and just look at real men in your daily life.
i will always be under 6 ft. but you know who else will also always be under 6 ft? the delivery guy who dropped off a package at my office today. he was the same height as me.
sometimes my voice can sound high pitched. but you know who also has a high pitched voice? the guy who stood in front of me at the sandwich shop.
my facial hair is patchy. but you know who also has patchy facial hair? like....so many men. especially men who only just started growing facial hair like me.
there are dudes everywhere, and there are plenty of dudes who have features like yours who won't immediately get clocked as "not cis".
when your scope begins and ends at the media you consume, or the images you see plastered on screens or on magazine covers, you're going to get a warped understanding of what's expected of you, and you're always going to fall short if you make that your only criteria for transitioning "properly".
transitioning is second puberty. and just like how cis teenage girls need to stop comparing themselves to photoshopped runway models and cis teenage boys need to stop comparing themselves to the covers of fitness magazines, you also need to stop comparing yourself to unrealistic standards in much the same way.
however you decide to define masculinity for yourself or however masculinity happens to look for you, there's a man out there who also fits that description.
you're transitioning fine.
(note: i'm writing this about trans men bc that's the only perspective i know. but if any trans women have any perspectives they'd like to share, i'd love to hear it)
For trans women, there are a few things that can out us more immediately, like our voices, but like
Everything above still applies. You're really tall, or fat? I promise you there are tall and fat cis women who have the same issues shopping for clothes that you do. Your boobs are kind of uneven or shaped weird? That's everybodies' titties. Boobs are just weird. You have broad shoulders? So do female athletes and lots of other women who aren't sporty. Even things like your voice that I mentioned above have a great deal of variation. Sometimes women just have deep voices, and lots of cis women are sometimes mistaken for men too.
A lot of the time, we do end up looking like the magazines. Tall, leggy, and thin. But like, even those women who do look like a magazine cover and who are cisgender, they still have tummies and hair in "weird" places and so forth. It's okay if you don't look like a magazine. I promise you that 90% of the insecurities you have about your body are shared by cis women. Too much facial hair (cis ladies often wax this), too short, too tall, big feet, boobs different sizes, boobs too small, too few or too many moles, etc. etc. etc.. Even typical HRT goals that a lot of trans women shoot for are kind of missing in a lot of cis women. You didn't get a lot of breast growth? The joke about the "itty bitty titty comittee" has been around a lot longer than trans women have been in the public eye. When it's laid out so plainly, it's a lot easier to see that the things we worry about aren't some deviation from the norm, just a deviation from marketing or objectifying media. If everyone is worried about them, then it's not really rare or unusual, is it? Those things are normal.
My sister waxes her moustache, and my mom joked about looking like a gorilla when she didn't shave her legs. Other women quite often have a lot more arm and body hair than I do, and oodles of women have square or angular faces. My grandma was massive, very tall and had very large feet. She needed to shop in specialty shoe stores and likely had trouble finding clothes in her size, but no one ever thought she wasn't a woman.
There isn't some platonic ideal of a woman's body. We're all just kind of people, and that means being lumpy and oddly shaped sometimes, trans or not. You're lovely, and I promise that you're shaped like whichever gender you are. It is a much broader scope than we are often led to believe.
